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An independent auditing firm has concluded that Compton’s budget crisis is so dire that it’s an open question whether the city can remain solvent.

The auditor’s report was made public as the Compton City Council struggles to deal with a fiscal crisis, voting this week to lay off employees. Though city officials did not say how [...]

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COMPTON — Understanding that each student has different learning needs, the Compton Unified School District late last month approved two programs that officials hope will meet those needs.

Known as the Waterford Early Learning Program, it is a digital curriculum that customizes instruction to meet children’s individual learning needs. It also provides a web-enabled tracking and [...]

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After months of contention, a charter school will open within the boundaries of the Compton Unified School District.
Advocates of the new “Parent Trigger” law are behind the new school.
Last week, the L.A. County Office of Education gave the Celerity charter school company the go-ahead to open an independent elementary school at Church of the Redeemer [...]

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LYNWOOD — Everyone who has a say in education seems to be represented by a union, so why don’t parents have a union?

That’s a question parents have been asking themselves for years, but now that Parent Revolution is on the map, parents across the state are organizing and forming parent union chapters.
Among those is [...]

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The California Citizens Redistricting Commission has released a two minute video featuring all 14 members of the Commission talking about the redistricting process for Legislative and Congressional districts and asking the public for help.

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In student loan hell? Here’s how to get out.

Go ahead, ask me anything about cash, credit, savings and so on – I’ll do my best to provide the information you need to get ahead. There’s one subject that drives me nuts, though. Federal student loans. When you take them out they’re awesome. You [...]

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Any recent graduate may feel like he or she has hit the jackpot by landing a job right out of school, especially in today’s job market. While a new office job likely pays more than a gig in college, that doesn’t mean you can be carefree with your [...]

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You earned straight A’s through four years of college, and landed a job with a respectable starting salary right after graduation.
Now come some big tests: Repaying student loans, keeping credit card spending under control, and getting a grasp of 401(k)s, health savings accounts and other employee benefits.
Makes you long for the good old days [...]

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Ted Hayes, co-founder, player and coach of the Compton Cricket Club, bowls against the Simi Sluggers.

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Compton Cricket Club players have sipped tea with UK’s Prince Edward at Buckingham Palace, played against Aborigines in the Australian outback, and swapped stories of violence-torn neighbourhoods with residents of Belfast.
At home, [...]

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By CHRISTINA HOAG, Associated PRess
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COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — Compton Cricket Club players have sipped tea with Prince Edward at Buckingham Palace, played against Aborigines in the Australian outback, and swapped stories of violence-torn neighborhoods with residents of Belfast.
At home, though, it’s another story.
American cricketers are already an anomaly, but when they come from [...]

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COMPTON, Calif.—The city of Compton is poised to lay off nearly 100 employees to help plug a gaping budget shortfall, the latest California municipality to grapple with a severe financial crisis.
Compton’s fiscal woes, which include a $25 million general fund deficit and no reserves, are so drastic auditors recently questioned the city’s ability “to continue [...]

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COMPTON — Though the Parent Trigger battle between McKinley Elementary School parents and Compton Unified School District is not yet over, some parents are claiming victory after the charter operator they wanted to replace McKinley was authorized to open a school in the district’s territory.

On May 17, the Los Angeles County Office of Education board [...]

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The McKinley parents were hoping to use California’s groundbreaking so-called “parent trigger” law to turn over their struggling elementary school to a charter operator.
McKinley ranks in the bottom 10% among all California elementary school, according to education department statistics.
Under the law, valid signatures of parents of half the school’s students are required to initiate the [...]

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Parents of students from McKinley Elementary School hold hands in prayer on Dec. 7, 2010, before filing California’s first “parent trigger” law to force the Compton Unified School District to make changes in its system

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In a bare-bones basement office in Buffalo, N.Y., Katie Campos, an education activist, is [...]

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